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Bestmile CEO and cofounder Raphael Gindrat will speak at NOAH London, held October 30-31, a conference the brings together Europe’s leading technology businesses, investors, and analysts to facilitate the funding of European businesses at any stage. The program is designed to allow investors and entrepreneurs tell their common success stories. Raphael will tell the Bestmile story on October 31 on at 9:50 … Read More

In the rush to develop autonomous vehicles and the safer, greener, traffic-free future that they promise, human-driven services like ridehailing and micro-transit are sometimes overlooked. Innovation in human-driven services is still happening, however, as competitors to early disruptors Uber and Lyft find niche opportunities, and there appears to be plenty of room for growth. This means human-driven and autonomous services … Read More

Autonomous mobility at the kind of scale envisioned by tech and automotive visionaries will be enabled by another recent technical phenomenon, the internet of things (IoT). In a blog on the website Smart Cities Dive, Bestmile’s Mike Cottle writes about how autonomous transit requires exponentially more technology than the tech that is installed on human-driven vehicles, and the vehicles will … Read More

Geneva Public Transport (TPG) today announced its first autonomous vehicle service, adding autonomous shuttles to the XA line in the municipality of Meyrin on the TPG network. The line is now served by electric autonomous shuttles—the first autonomous vehicles used in the TPG public network. Bestmile is providing the Mobility Services Platform used to configure and manage the service. The … Read More

Bestmile today announced its partnership with leading German autonomous vehicle technology provider HFM. Bestmile and HFM will demonstrate a combination of the companies’ technologies during a live demonstration amidst an “Urban Jungle” at ITS World Congress in Copenhagen from Sept. 18-21, 2018. The integration of Bestmile’s Mobility Services Platform with HFM’s Motionboard enables HFM vehicles to be managed as fleets … Read More

Once again, Bestmile has been recognized as one of the leading startups in Switzerland, this year being voted number 2 in Startup.ch’s annual Top 100 Swiss Startups competition. Bestmile was ranked number seven in the 2017 awards, up from 13th in 2016 and 29th in 2015. “This competition calls attention to the great innovation that is going on in Switzerland, … Read More

Business Insider points out that, “Innovation doesn’t just belong to Silicon Valley — it comes from everywhere.” The article goes on to discuss the global nature of the World Economic Forum’s annual list of the most innovative companies in the world, including Bestmile. Read More

Bestmile, one of 61 new technology pioneers announced last week by the World Economic Forum, has developed a cloud-based platform that allows both private and public transportation providers to manage traditional and innovative mobility services. Read more.

Will new mobility services make urban living better or worse? Some say more vehicles mean more traffic. Others tout autonomous vehicles as a cure for traffic and congestion. Bestmile’s Mike Cottle, VP of Sales and Customer Success, addresses this topic in Metro Magazine–the oldest and largest magazine entirely devoted to public transportation. “What will be badly needed…is an overarching mobility management … Read More

€22M AVENUE program will test autonomous transit for social, economic impacts San Francisco – USA, Lausanne – Switzerland, May 16, 2018 – Bestmile, the leading mobility platform that enables service providers to manage, operate and optimize autonomous vehicle fleets, today announced that the company was selected as part of a team that will oversee the European Union’s AVENUE project to … Read More